They would just get an email saying that icloudbackupsupport@gmail.com (his phony address) accessed the account immediately after giving their info to icloudbackupsupport@gmail.com. He could even have told them to expect and ignore such an email.
There should be a request for approving the login attempt, and if you say yes, you get a six digit code to enter on the device trying to connect. Then when that succeeds, you get another push notification about it succeeding.